Linda A. Kraft, Formerly Of Hampton Bays, Dies March 19 - 27 East

Linda A. Kraft, Formerly Of Hampton Bays, Dies March 19

author on Mar 25, 2014

Former Hampton Bays resident Linda A. Kraft died at her home in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on March 19, after an extended illness. She was 70.

Born December 11, 1943, Ms. Kraft retired as an administrator from Southampton Hospital and had also worked as an administrator at New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan.

She was predeceased by her husband, Frederick Ulrich, in 2008. She is survived by three sisters, Mary Kay Swanson and husband Alistair, and Christine MacQuilken and husband Jon, all of New Jersey, and Barbara Kraft of Altoona, who was her caregiver. Also surviving are two brothers, Joseph and wife Susan of New Jersey, and Edward and wife Marie of Texas; five nieces and nephews, two great-nieces and one great-nephew; and one great-great-niece; as well as devoted longtime friends, Ann Cote-Taylor, Maureen DeStefano, Cecelia Sheridan and Karen Feeley, who supported her during her illness.

Services will be private.

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